Watery Lines; Lankan Bonhomie; Tech Snooze
Opinion Watch
Watery Lines
In a throwback to its past, The Indian Express has said in its Editorial that interventions of the Central government in addressing the Manipur ethnic violence amount to drawing lines on water, while castigating the ruling Bharatiya Janata Party for attempts of deflection by citing Rajasthan, Chhattisgarh. The Noida-based daily has called incumbent Chief Minister N. Biren Singh partisan in the conflict and also ineffectual, while underlying the growing ember of ethnic conflicts that threaten to spread to Mizoram now.
This is a late awakening of the daily which sings to ‘journalism of courage’ tune as it was sleeping for past two months, front-paging events while Manipur had been burning. Besides the Central government, the mainstream media also owes an explanation to ‘how did they fail the women of Manipur’.
Lankan Bonhomie
The Asian Age in its Editorial has lauded the proposal of Ranil Wickremesinghe, the Sri Lankan president, who proposed a bridge with India during the visit to New Delhi. The New Delhi-based daily firmed up the opinion that Sri Lanka has finally divorced China after India bailed out Colombo following financial bankruptcy with $4 billion in aid, as well as helping the International Monetary Fund to extend a $2.9 billion package. The daily has called upon Colombo to fulfil commitment enshrined in the 13th amendment and extend the benefits of development to Tamil population.
Toxic Gotabaya Rajapaksa has not only mortgaged Sri Lanka to China, but also transferred the keys to politics to militant Buddhist monks, who sought persecution of the Tamil population. Sri Lanka must know that the island nation, currently gaining from the Indian tourists, stands to benefit with close ties with India and all bottlenecks should be buried.
Tech Snooze
The Economic Times has noted in nits Editorial that the IT sector in the country is currently in a stress mode, with frozen hiring and the quarterly financial results sobering. Yet, the business daily has opined that the generic-AI which is leading to tech rally on the US bourses may not leave the Indian IT firms untouched even while there remains obvious risks to the Indian economy due to the lack of healthy wage hike among the software engineers.
The Indian IT firms remain service oriented even after three decades of successes. Innovations and product engineering, which can make them tech-giants in the league of the US and Chinese firms, are yet to rub them on.
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